The United Nations Compensation Commission has forwarded to Iraq the documents for the fourth instalment of environmental claims, which amount to an estimated 51 billion United States dollars (according to the documents sent to the Government of Iraq), and has granted Iraq a period of one year, starting 30 September 2002, in which to reply, whereas the Iraqi group of experts created in order to answer environmental claims is busy preparing the answers to the third instalment of such claims, work on which is to continue until the end of March 2003, at which time the hearing on that instalment is to be held.
La Comisión de Indemnización de las Naciones Unidas transmitió al Iraq documentos en virtud de la cuarta serie de reclamaciones ambientales por un importe estimado en torno a los 51.000 millones de dólares de los EE.UU.